Get contents of entire page using Selenium

Question

Using Selenium for browser automation (Python).

If I understand correctly, the following code would be used

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
the_text = inputElement.text

How would I go about getting the text on the whole page as opposed to looking within a particular element?

You're working with the DOM, not the HTML. Browsers are extremely lenient and will try to make sense of the HTML. — Blender, Apr 19 '13 at 22:17
I think this is *not* a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7861775/python-selenium-accessing-html-source — fstang, Apr 17 '15 at 02:44

score 62 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '13 at 22:24

62

Looks like the entire page text can be found in:

driver.page_source

answered Apr 19 '13 at 22:24

Chris Dutrow

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